What’s New with MobileIron EMM: Top Highlights of Core 9.6

We are excited to bring you another new release of MobileIron enterprise mobility management (EMM), MobileIron Core 9.6, which includes more than 30 new features focused on enhancing security, improving usability, and further strengthening our multi-OS support. Let’s take a look at several highlights of this release!

Office 365 App Protection

Thanks to MobileIron Core 9.6 compatibility with Microsoft Graph APIs, admins now have the ability to segregate Office 365 apps and data from personal apps and data on users’ mobile devices. This level of data loss prevention (DLP) is especially critical in financial services, healthcare, government, and other highly-regulated industries. MobileIron Core 9.6 provides access to the following Office 365 App Protection settings for Android and iOS devices:

Restrict Cloud backup — Enable/Disable backup of information from the app to the Cloud

Additional macOS capabilities

MobileIron continues to expand upon our EMM capabilities for Mac desktops. Prior to this release, MobileIron Core admins were able to install only those apps made available via the Apple Mac App Store. However, with new Core 9.6, admins now have the added convenience of installing custom, in-house apps as well. In addition, several new restrictions have been added to provide admins with more granular controls for software downloads that occur via the Apple Mac App Store. Also important to mention is that additional features are now available to improve data loss prevention (DLP) for Macs. Admins can now implement disc burning restrictions to enable or disable disc burning. Plus, allowed media control helps to prevent data loss by enabling granular control of media disc operation, as well as controlling new restrictions introduced in macOS 10.13. And finally, Core 9.6 enables admins to create policies in Spaces for delegated admins in those spaces, these include macOS policies.

Google Play Alpha/Beta

Developers now have the ability to distribute early app releases using Google Play alpha/beta channels. This level of flexibility means that admins can now limit new software releases to a subset of users (i.e., early testing purposes), as opposed to pushing the release to the entire user base. Admins can easily enroll selected users for pre-release apps, and with no user interaction required. Another advantage of Google Play Alpha/Beta is that Developers are no longer forced to publish beta apps separately. In addition, developers can now take advantage of Google Play publishing tools for in-house apps.

Support for Samsung Enterprise Firmware Over-the-Air (E-FOTA)

Using Samsung E-FOTA, admins now have the ability to manage and push selected versions of device firmware to users with supported Samsung devices. There are many benefits to E-FOTA. For example, thanks to more control over device configuration, admins can minimize unplanned changes to device environments. Strict firmware policies for Samsung devices can now be enforced by model and groups. Admins can specify target firmware for bot user-selected and forced updates. In addition, admins can now manage policies by employee groups, which allows for more granular control over which firmware to update, and when.

Work Schedule policy facilitates ”Right to Disconnect” legislation

Earlier this year, “Right to Disconnect” legislation was introduced in France. Now, at the conclusion of the work day, employees have the right to ignore work-related emails until the following day. MobileIron Core 9.6 enables admins to create policies that define work schedule and enable blocking of Exchange ActiveSync, AppConnect-enabled apps, and managed apps that use MobileIron Tunnel during non-work times. The goal here is to ensure that employees maintain a healthy work/life balance. MobileIron is excited to support this effort!

SAML 2.0 and support for ADFS IdP on Admin portal and self-service user portal